1 Chapel Farm Cottage, Lenham Heath Road, Lenham Heath, Maidstone, ME17 2BJ

1 Chapel Farm Cottage is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Lenham Heath, Maidstone, Maidstone (ME17 2BJ). It has a recorded floor area of 177 m² (around 1905 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (April 2015) shows an F (score 32), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 66), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on lpg. The latest certificate is from April 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include outbuildings.

Held since November 2006 — that's 20 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 177 m² the property is well over the postcode median (88 m² across 5 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 80% of similar EPCs). Today's modelled estimate of £461,000 sits 88.2% above the 2006 sale of £245,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£129/sq ft) was about 31.6% below the postcode norm. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2007. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.